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@@ -273,9 +273,6 @@ Just Works. on another machine which is connected to Alacritty via SSH, this issue disappears. Actual throughput and rendering performance are still better in Alacritty. -- _Is wayland supported?_ Sort of, but not everything works. To prefer X11 over - Wayland (e.g. for use on XWayland) launch Alacritty like this: - `env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty` - _When will Windows support be available?_ When someone has time to work on it. Contributors would be welcomed :). - _My arrow keys don't work_. It sounds like you deleted some key bindings from @@ -289,9 +286,23 @@ Just Works. Alacritty discussion can be found in `#alacritty` on freenode. +## Wayland + +Wayland support is available, but not everything works as expected. Many people +have found a better experience using XWayland which can be achieved launching +Alacritty with the `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` environment variable cleared: + +```sh +env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty +``` + +If you're interested in seeing our Wayland support improve, please head over to +the [Wayland meta issue] on the _winit_ project to see how you may contribute. + ## License Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0]. [Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/blob/readme/LICENSE-APACHE [tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux +[Wayland meta issue]: https://github.com/tomaka/winit/issues/306 |